3 minutes ago, PrinceKelby said:

Yeah, trying to figure Ridgway in as the "main 4" I think they'll be around there.

I could see Hargrave at a bit more.

I would be shocked it he's under 60% by design though. 

Anywhere from 60% to 65% to him seems logical.

It's really kind of tough to figure out due to all the injuries the past few seasons.

While doing so, I totally forgot we got Higgins back for depth too.

Last season was all over the place too so you're averaging averages between different players at different points depending how many bodies available to try to come to a logical conclusion. 🤪

I think 4th DT is going to be a nice camp battle.  Hector is back as that PS guy you can call up.  Probably his last year of PS eligibility however.  

39 minutes ago, Asg 15 said:

A lot of the increase was due to the injuries (I hope)

We can't have as many injuries as we did last year. Can we?

We've said that since 2017... 

1 minute ago, bpac55 said:

I think 4th DT is going to be a nice camp battle.  Hector is back as that PS guy you can call up.  Probably his last year of PS eligibility however.  

I like Higgins over Hector as he has PS availability, but he's been poached before too. 

1 hour ago, BigEFly said:

Major truth here.  From what I have seen there are serious lapses in leadership in both the departments and unions and arguably it training. Someone had to make the decision that Chauvin and Thao were qualified to be training officers.  That’s a failure. I have to ask why Thao didn’t intervene and let his rookie and the other rookie know this wasn’t all right. Was he intimidated by Chauvin?  How does Chauvin rise to be the senior officer on the scene?  Lots of questions and frankly, I wonder how our local state police barracks would fare under such questions. 

To me Chauvin and all officers who do stuff like this are idiots and deserve all the punishment they get.  You know people are watching, recording.  

8 minutes ago, PrinceKelby said:

I like Higgins over Hector as he has PS availability, but he's been poached before too. 

I think you'll see those bottom 2-3 DT on the PS and called up when needed.  Serviceable players and that's OK.  However, I would like to see one of them push for more PT and a shot at DT3 in 2021.

Dalvin Cook screwing up the top 10 in Fantasy Football. Picking 7 and 8 in my two money leagues this is going to sting.

3 hours ago, twistr said:

WA is all either drop off or mail in...I don't see the issue.

And who runs that progressive state? Most liberals don't. Just like most Patriots fans don't have a problem with the crooked crap Bill does as long as they keep winning.

44 minutes ago, T-1000 said:

Dalvin Cook screwing up the top 10 in Fantasy Football. Picking 7 and 8 in my two money leagues this is going to sting.

It’s June 8th. Relax.

1 hour ago, PrinceKelby said:

I think Hargrave is going to be around 60% Cox still close to 70%, but would still be less than an last year.

 

Anything less than 70 would be ideal for Cox. I looked at his percentage in 2017 because that was the last time the DT’s were actually healthy and he was at 58% for the season. I think that was mostly due to games frequently being blowouts and then barely playing Week 17 if at all. 

2 hours ago, T-1000 said:

Dalvin Cook screwing up the top 10 in Fantasy Football. Picking 7 and 8 in my two money leagues this is going to sting.

Gotta be doing an auction draft. Way more strategy involved and way more fun.

6 hours ago, Diehardfan said:

And who runs that progressive state? Most liberals don't. Just like most Patriots fans don't have a problem with the crooked crap Bill does as long as they keep winning.

Florida allows mail in ballots.  We do it.  Doesn't have to be an absentee ballot request.   One can simply request to vote by mail.

10 hours ago, eagle45 said:

Yup.  

It's time to "Vietnam" the war on drugs.  Get out of there.  We are halfway there with marijuana anyway.  Drug policing is nearly $4b annually.  

I'm not saying to just legalize everything in a free for all, but hard, dangerous drugs are very accessible as it is.  Where is this getting us?

The left says that this war is punishing, incarcerating, and profiling non-violent people of color.  The right wants lower taxes.  Boom.  Everybody come together, shake hands, tax some drugs, and let's save some money.  

Just don't ask the taxpayer to fund everyone's rehab afterwards.  You're on your own.  

Hey and let's go ahead and make murder legal as well. Costs a lot to prosecute and house murderers too. I mean hard drugs and youths of all colors dying because of drugs pfffft who needs em anyways.

7 hours ago, LeanMeanGM said:

Anything less than 70 would be ideal for Cox. I looked at his percentage in 2017 because that was the last time the DT’s were actually healthy and he was at 58% for the season. I think that was mostly due to games frequently being blowouts and then barely playing Week 17 if at all. 

Yeah, he needs his work load slashed.  Hopefully they all remain healthy and he doesn't have to play nearly every snap.  Another year of that type of work load and....

1 hour ago, MediterraneanDiet said:

Yeah, he needs his work load slashed.  Hopefully they all remain healthy and he doesn't have to play nearly every snap.  Another year of that type of work load and....

I really think this year is HUGE for Cox and Ertz.  Both players have been such great Eagles but are looking at different roles and significant cash in the near future.  Cox has a cap hit of $23 million and Ertz is about $13 million. 

There's no way that Cox is seeing that much money, especially if his snap count is reduced.  They really need to invest in a young defensive tackle.  Hargrave isn't a spring chicken, he'll be 28 in 2021.  We have no idea what Malik is bringing to the table and he's not cheap at nearly $14 million in 2021.  A young DT would be much better for this team that a guy like Jalen Hurts or Davion Taylor.   We've got Hector, Huggins, Ridgeway, Rush and Williams as 25 and under.  Interested to see what Williams brings to the table.  Can Huggins finally develop and live up to his potential? Does Rush develop at all? I think Ridgeway's ceiling is DT3.  Hector is strictly a DT4.

	Fletcher Cox	91	6-4	6-4	310	29	9
	Javon Hargrave	93	DT	6-2	305	27	5
	Bruce Hector	90	DT	6-2	296	25	2
	Albert Huggins	76	DT	6-3	305	22	1
	Malik Jackson	97	DT	6-5	290	30	9
	Hassan Ridgeway	98	DT	6-3	305	25	5
	Anthony Rush	66	DT	6-5	350	23	2
	Raequan Williams		DT	6-4	305	23

 

We've all discussed Ertz and I have no idea what direction the Eagles will go with him.  I think Goedert is ready to take over.  He's extension eligible next year and deserves it.  Is Ertz a trade chip or does he come back and stay an Eagle for life?  I'd be interested to see what he can bring back in a trade before signing him to an extension.  In my opinion the worst case scenario is extending Ertz and letting Goedert walk.  Both are going to get paid, I really don't see investing the amount that it's projected to cost with tight ends looking to set a bar with their salaries. 

15 hours ago, BDawk_ASamuel said:

I’m not getting into the merits of the protests. They’re obviously for a good cause. But scientifically, this whole Corona thing and how they’ve told us to handle it seems very hypocritical with what’s going on now. You can’t tell someone that they needed to close down their small business yet be okay with 100,000 people in the streets. 

That seems a bit myopic and blind hindsighted.  The scientists have been learning more and more about the risks with this virus constantly and, I am sorry to say, will learn more and more before this is over. The criticism from the left and right politically and on talking head TV doesn’t help.  I spent about fifteen years of my career in toxic tort litigation and learned a ton about epidemiology and cause and effect.  With Covid 19 we are still in the infancy of that knowledge. When it first spread, we knew nothing about asymptomatic or mildly symptomatic individuals and their impact on contagion.  We knew little about the cause and method of infection.  Quickly they learned about how long the virus could live in ideal conditions on surfaces. That contributed to the spread. In an effort to maximize PPE (because of poor planning and preparation ahead of time as a country and as a world overall), the use of masks was not encouraged.  You still have trouble locating disinfectants because of the cleaning we probably should have been doing as a nation beforehand.  We are just beginning to learn about the impact of sun and outdoors.  Memorial Day gatherings and the protests are going to add to that knowledge.

i do believe the 24/7 coverage created a bit of fear in this country. The constant reminder of the rising number of cases and deaths probably contributed to a bit of overreaction on closing and paralysis on formulation of a plan for reopening.  In the process, I think as a nation we lost sight of the goal. It went from flattening the curve to an attempt to reduce infections and deaths dramatically and probably unrealistically.  That said, in the seventh most populated county in the state, the last I saw our death toll was 16, with four in assisted living facilities.  The distancing and caution has worked some but we have more to learn as we begin to distance less.   I don’t think we can react like it is over, toss away our masks and pack subway trains again until we have some answers to treatments and hopefully a vaccine.  Maybe we shouldn’t.  Even with the flu shot, we have around 30,000 to 50,000 people die from complications from the flu each year.  I suspect if we wore masks during cold and flu season we could cut down that number. 
 

It seems to me the only statesmanship approach to this pandemic and the economic impact from it is not to spend all our time on what could have been done differently and criticize but rather focus on the future and on what we need to do publicly and privately to prepare for the next one.  Maybe we should do that with most of the challenges facing us.  It’s morning in America, what are we going to do as We the People to face a new day.

15 hours ago, ManuManu said:

 

Well Greg Ward is from Houston. Hopefully he is one of them.  Wouldn’t surprise me if others hear about it and show up.  DJax, just let him continue to build up in his rehab.  I do hope that Rath and his team are offering training guidance to avoid soft tissue injuries like calf strains and hammies. 

Just about every middle school and high school has a football field and there are the high school game stadiums too.  Plus UH, TSU, Rice, Houston Baptist and a slew of junior colleges like San Jacinto.  Should be ample places for them to work out.  

Hopefully soon we will see videos of the DBs and OL.  

3 hours ago, greend said:

Hey and let's go ahead and make murder legal as well. Costs a lot to prosecute and house murderers too. I mean hard drugs and youths of all colors dying because of drugs pfffft who needs em anyways.

Nah.  Legalization of marijuana and the decriminalization of other drugs would actually reduce violent crime quite a bit, especially in the cities.  You can't really decriminalize drug trafficking but if you decriminalize and regulate personal use amounts, eventually, that will put a dent in illegal trafficking by hurting their (Illegal drug traffickers)  profit levels.  That will give anti-trafficking departments a better edge since the organizations/cartels won't have "unlimited" funds to operate their operations with, etc.  It's already been studied quite a bit. 

People that do drugs will do drugs regardless of them being illegal or legal/decriminalized.  In countries where drugs are legal/decriminalized, there are no drastic jumps in drug use.  (In some cases, drug use actually goes down thanks to quality rehabilitation programs) The one thing that does indeed go down (In just about all studies)  is violent crime and the cost to prosecute and incarcerate minor drug offenders.  You can then use those funds (funds saved) towards rehabilitation programs, etc. 

 

15 hours ago, NCiggles said:

What is this sudden obsession over mail in voting? Absentee ballots have always been allowed.  They are probably the biggest reason Lincoln was re-elected in 1864.  

I find it hilarious. First, PA’s Republican legislature gave us no excuse needed mail in balloting application in sweeping voting reform this year and the Democratic governor signed it.  

Secondly, you couldn’t meet more conservative, everything on Fox is gospel people than my in-laws.  My mother-in-law passed away the spring but my father-in-law is still out there. They have been voting by mail since their early sixties. Good thing they got that arranged before their drivers license expired because she hadn’t driven in over twenty years and it is more than a decade for him.  Old people do it more than anyone outside of states like OR where they automatically mail ballots.  You can sign up to get the ballots sent to you every year in PA but you need to sign up. I like the OR model. I also like the early voting option in places like TX and MD.  If my father-in-law had to go vote in person, he can’t stand in line.  His back is so bad, waiting in a wheelchair is not an option either.  Mail and early voting help enfranchise working people that have trouble making Election Day work.  Not a bad thing  

 

15 hours ago, Diehardfan said:

States were talking about going to mostly mail in voting. 

And that is a bad thing? Why?

14 hours ago, Diehardfan said:

 

Al Franken and the mail in ballots found in trunks of cars until he won says hi. Two million extra names on the rolls in Cali do as well. The town in PA who got double votes are waiving too.  You all sound like the Patriots talking about how spygate didn't change the outcome of anything. 

In person voting, Tammany Hall and the dead people in Duval, County TX say hi. 

13 hours ago, eagle45 said:

ID and proof of citizenship, how outrageous.  

My father-in-law no longer has a driver license and couldn’t stand in line to get a state issued photo ID now.  Disenfranchising him and people like him would be bad for conservatives and the Republican Party.  I have never had to show my ID to vote.  

7 minutes ago, BigEFly said:

In person voting, Tammany Hall and the dead people in Duval, County TX say hi. 

I've read about quite a few problems with voting machines. Whether it was on purpose or not there was one city where the candidates were reversed. If you pressed the button gor one guy you were voting for the other one.

Around here we use paper ballots. The are counted by machine however.

1 minute ago, BigEFly said:

My father-in-law no longer has a driver license and couldn’t stand in line to get a state issued photo ID now.  Disenfranchising him and people like him would be bad for conservatives and the Republican Party.  I have never had to show my ID to vote.  

I must have forgotten what it's like to live in a city. I haven't waited more than 10 minutes to vote for 15 years

13 hours ago, eagle45 said:

Requirements vary by state.  The argument is that underprivileged minorities are systematically targeted and suppressed in the vote due to requirements of ID and proof of citizenship.

People that don’t drive tend to reside in cities or tend to be poor.  Do you have to carry your birth certificate with you when you go to vote?

3 hours ago, greend said:

Hey and let's go ahead and make murder legal as well. Costs a lot to prosecute and house murderers too. I mean hard drugs and youths of all colors dying because of drugs pfffft who needs em anyways.

laws dont stop people from doing it. at least capture the tax revenue from it